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Hey, hey, USA! How many bombs did you drop today?
Jan 12, 2022 14:59The U.S. military and allied air forces have dropped over 337,000 bombs and missiles on other countries over the last 20 years. That is an average of 46 strikes per day for two decades. Enough.
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'20 years of US torture and counting': Report details post-9/11 abuse at Gitmo and beyond
Jan 11, 2022 13:32A report released, nearly 20 years after the first prisoners arrived at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, details "systematic abuses carried out by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and U.S. military" since the 2001.
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The silence — or worse — of human rights hawks on US sanctions against Afghanistan
Jan 11, 2022 13:29Months after the US-backed Afghan government fell to the Taliban, ordinary Afghans now face what could be their direst winter in decades. Thanks to the economic collapse that accompanied the U.S. military withdrawal, coupled with the imposition of sanctions and the cessation of much humanitarian aid, millions of Afghans must contend with the very real prospect of starvation.
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The cruel farce of US regime change policy in Venezuela
Jan 09, 2022 16:33Biden’s willingness to let the bankrupt and evil policy against Venezuela is a black mark on his record. This was a Trump-era policy that he inherited, so it would not have been that difficult for him to repudiate Trump’s policy at the beginning of his term.
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The US is building, rather than tearing down GTMO prison facilities
Jan 07, 2022 18:24There seems to be little effort to hide the fact that the Biden Administration does not plan to close the Guantanamo Bay prison in his first term as he once declared. That pledge is but a whisper on the wind, much like the promises made by his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama.
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America's wars are far more costly than the Pentagon admits
Jan 07, 2022 18:13According to a major 2019 study, from 2001 to 2019, taxpayers incurred a cost of $6.4 trillion for US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan.
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Rights groups warn extradition of Assange would have 'dangerous implications for future of journalism'
Dec 16, 2021 18:19A chorus of international human rights and press freedom groups roundly condemned a British court's ruling that WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States where he could face torturous conditions and life in prison.
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Pentagon blasted for 'unacceptable failure' to reckon with civilian casualties
Dec 16, 2021 18:14Days after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a new investigation into a clandestine airstrike that killed scores of Syrian noncombatants whose deaths were subsequently covered up, 24 advocacy groups on Wednesday published an open letter calling on the Pentagon to "reckon with U.S.-caused civilian casualties and commit to urgent reforms."
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Human rights groups call on Pentagon to reinvestigate civilian deaths in Yemen
Dec 05, 2021 14:22Activists want US War Secretary Lloyd Austin to open new investigations of past airstrikes, apologize for civilian deaths, and compensate relatives.
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How many wars does Washington want? And for what?
Dec 03, 2021 15:35Over the last two decades US policymakers have blundered through Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen, frivolously sacrificing thousands of lives, wasting trillions of dollars, diverting essential resources, misusing patriotic personnel, and damaging national credibility – as well as killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions of people in foreign lands.